... of sexist language is the use of the male pronoun to describe groups of people containing both males and females. For example in the statement "if a child wants to buy some chocolate then he will need some money" the ungendered term "child" is replaced with the gendered pronoun "he ... " in the latter half of the sentence. On a very basic level this is clearly simply inaccurate since roughly half of the children in the world are female. However the consequences of such usages might go well beyond a simple inaccuracy of language. Graham (1973 in ... a metaphorical pendulum of interaction...

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... toys therefore predispose a person, from birth, to an 'appropriate' gender identity and behavior. It is important to outline what people really understand with the term 'gender'. In everyday language, the term 'gender' is sometimes confused with the term 'sex'. Scholars have narrowed the meaning of the word 'sex' increasingly (Beasley, 2005). In the academic world, ... of the self is a social construct, derived from the meaning people gave to themselves. (Blumer, 1969). Thus, the theories of Impression Management and Symbolic Interactionism view meaning of the gen...

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... Family The family is the primary agent of socialisation and the first port of contact for a child to learn cultural norms, behaviours and customs and this includes the reinforcement of gendered expectations. From the moment a child is born, parents begin to treat the child in a way that seems appropriate to their gender, from the toys they are given to the ... those toys, they develop different skills. Parents play differently with boys and girls, with boys experiencing more physical and rough-and-tumble play, and girls experience more pretend play involving language and social roles." ...

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... implies, doesn't exist, save in its imaginative rendering within the constraints of the proscenium arch. It is a place of play within a play. The terms of Never Land are nostalgic and gendered. Never Land is a boy's world, "very compact, not large and sprawly with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed- (105). Act Two introduces Never Land and begins ... another useful index of Barrie's anxiety about the changing world brought about by the industrial technologies of capitalism. The specifics of Rose's argument about the tension of various levels of langu...

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... previously stated, different types of intelligence are applied to one gender or the other. Michael Marland (1983) experimented with both genders to develop a hypothesis on multiple, gendered intelligence. They concluded that boys typically outperformed girls on three types of abilities: general information, arithmetical reasoning, and spatial ability. These abilities are applied to mathematical and ... scientific categories. Girls outscored boys on measures of general verbal ability, spelling, language, and memory. While these "female" types of intelligence are equally important to deve...

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... Zealand, and is in no way limited to education. Furthermore, for many children in these schools Maori was their first language, teachers were not given language or cultural courses to better instruct the students, nor were students taught the basics of the English language, they were simply expected to know it. Fortunately, as Holst (1971) states, the majority of Maori students took to ... 1929, the further education of teachers was introduced; however, many chose to keep to the traditional teaching style (McGee and Cowie, 2008). During this time, education had become increasingly more ...

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... to be focused on. The last virginity script is the urgency script. "The urgency script portrayed virginity loss as not only a highly enjoyable activity but as necessary to affirm a gendered identity as a sexually sought-after individual" (Kelly, 482) Kelly is saying that the teens in films that are a part of the urgency script are hypersexual. This can be said ... isn't such a bad thing as a teenager. In the age group of characters of older than eighteen, the sexual scripts are different. Writers are more likely to uses more mature, sexual language and are also willing to imply intercou...

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